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Benetton Clothing to Carry RFID Tags
An anonymous reader writes "Clothing manufacturer Benetton has announced that they will begin embedding RFID tags in clothing for inventory control purposes. You can
read more about this at SF Gate." morcheeba adds more information: "EETimes is reporting that Benetton will be embedding a Philips RFID chip into the label of every new garment bearing the name of Benetton's core clothing brand, Sisley. The 15 million chips expected sold in 2003 will allow monitoring of garments from production to shipping, shelves and dressing rooms. The I.CODE chip (tech info) used in Benetton's labels will include 1,024 bits of EEPROM and operate at a distance of up to 1.5 meters. RFIDs look like they would be extremely uncomfortable in some Sisley clothes."
Will this help me find matching socks?
So now will we'll be able to tell if she's wearing the "I'm getting lucky tonight" panties or the "He's not worth more than dinner" panties. Might help us decide how much to spend on the date.
Who am I kidding, we'd just be happy to be on a date with.
A trick that the US Navy has used to for years as an electronic counter measure would work for this on a much smaller scale. The navy uses planes with high powered radio transmitters in the noses of them. They fly over and blast the target with high powered RF and fry the reciever, and pretty much everything else in it's path(light bulbs, FM radios, 2way radios, computers, etc). Well in your case you should just have to get close to a high powered transmitter such as a 1500 watt radio transmitter and put it REALLY close. It should fry out in a heart beat with the clothes none the worse for wear[pun intended].
SW
How can i make my underwear scan like a can of ravioli?
Can I fool scanners into thinking I'm wearing original kilobuck designer duds, or that they scan as tools from the hardware store?
I can forsee the web sites popping up for scan code exchange, and I know there will be tons of creative hacks that I can't yet imagine.
The next thing you know, they won't sell them to you, they will license you to wear it. You will find a huge piece of paper when you first try to put them on. It will say you did not in fact buy the shirt only licensed it and by weraing them you agree to the license. Of course, you are then not allowed to let anyone else use the shirt. IN fact, they may at any time actually enter your homw to check that you actually have license for ALL your clothes and they may even at any time modify their short (that you licensed) in any way they want, like puting in short sleeves instead of long and changing thr colour of it. Well, it is a 10 page thing, I won't go through it all here.
Oh well, on the other hand lets hope not...